MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - An explosion on Wednesday in a coal mine in northern Mexico trapped five miners, officials said. The explosion occurred at around 9 a.m. local time in Muzquiz, in the coal-mining state of Coahuila, said civil protection representative Juan Antonio Ibarra. "We have no information as to whether they are alive or injured," Ibarra said. Emergency services are now attempting to free the trapped miners, he added. Ibarra said a pocket of gas...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A Hawker 800 jet crashed in northern Mexico late on Saturday, killing all eight people on board, the government of the state of Coahuila said. The plane came down in an industrial estate in the municipality of Ramos Arizpe, just north of state capital Saltillo, the Coahuila attorney general's office said in a statement. According to preliminary findings, the jet departed from the Mexican Caribbean island of Cozumel on the east coast of the Yucatan...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A Hawker 800 jet crashed in northern Mexico late on Saturday, killing all eight people on board, the government of the state of Coahuila said. The plane came down in an industrial estate in the municipality of Ramos Arizpe, just north of state capital Saltillo, the Coahuila attorney general's office said in a statement. According to preliminary findings, the jet departed from the Mexican Caribbean island of Cozumel on the east coast of the Yucatan...

A plane carrying a load of auto parts crashed Sunday as it was trying to land in northern Mexico, killing the pilot and severely injuring the co-pilot. The plane crashed half a mile from the runway in Ramos Arizpe, about 200 miles south of the U.S. border, said a Coahuila state official. The DC-9-15 freighter was operated by USA Jet Airlines, based in Ypsilanti, Mich. ---------- Page compiled from Tribune news services

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Five corpses wrapped head to toe in white sheets were found early Friday on a highway in the northern Mexican city of Saltillo, victims of suspected gang-related slaying. The attorney general's office of Coahuila state said three of the bodies were hung by rope from a bridge and two were on the ground. All were male and lacked identification. A message in a style associated with drug cartel murders was found nearby, officials said,...

* PRI chairman calls for 'crusade' against violence * Killing occurred in area notorious for drug gang activity (Rewrites with reaction, details, background) By Lizbeth Diaz MEXICO CITY, Oct 4 (Reuters) - A son of the former chairman of Mexico's most powerful political party was found shot dead in a town south of the U.S. border notorious for drug traffickers, as the violence dogging the country struck the ruling establishment. The body of Jose...

* PRI chairman calls for 'crusade' against violence * Killing occurred in area notorious for drug gang activity (Rewrites with reaction, details, background) By Lizbeth Diaz MEXICO CITY, Oct 4 (Reuters) - A son of the former chairman of Mexico's most powerful political party was found shot dead in a town south of the U.S. border notorious for drug traffickers, as the violence dogging the country struck the ruling establishment. The body of Jose...

Scores of new cases of dengue fever in northern Mexico indicate the disease is spreading, but health officials in the United States say there's little danger of the outbreak moving north into Texas. At least 5,500 people have been diagnosed with the painful, mosquito-borne disease this month alone in Mexico's Nuevo Leon state. Of those, about 150 had the sometimes-fatal form known as hemorrhagic dengue. Another 500 cases have been reported in the neighboring state of...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Six miners were killed in a coal mine collapse in the northern Mexican state of Coahuila on Friday, an emergency rescue team source on the site told Reuters. One miner was rescued earlier, according to a separate report from the mine operator. The explosion was triggered when a large amount of methane gas ignited, causing the collapse of 100 tonnes of coal, mine owner Altos Hornos de Mexico (AHMSA) said in a statement. Nearly 300 miners evacuated the mine...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Six miners were killed in a coal mine collapse in the northern Mexican state of Coahuila on Friday, an emergency rescue team source on the site told Reuters. One miner was rescued earlier, according to a separate report from the mine operator. The explosion was triggered when a large amount of methane gas ignited, causing the collapse of 100 tonnes of coal, mine owner Altos Hornos de Mexico (AHMSA) said in a statement. Nearly 300 miners evacuated the mine...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - An explosion on Wednesday in a coal mine in northern Mexico trapped five miners, officials said. The explosion occurred at around 9 a.m. local time in Muzquiz, in the coal-mining state of Coahuila, said civil protection representative Juan Antonio Ibarra. "We have no information as to whether they are alive or injured," Ibarra said. Emergency services are now attempting to free the trapped miners, he added. Ibarra said a pocket of gas...